Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> > > > Why don't you use perl for example instead?
> > > Chicken and egg.  Installation scripts have to rely on what is there.
> > But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that
> > possibility there any more?
>
> It means pulling in a lot of external technology for just a simple
> scripting job.  Why should we do that if what is present in Windows is
> so great?

I guess you know perl, of course. I might misunderstand what you are 
actually doing. There is vbs too and different installation software. 
But let us drop this, I just wanted to give a suggestion.

I agree this is a weak and disturbing point on w32, escpecially when you 
are used to have powerful scripting languages available. This is however 
not what w32 programmers use.